Blog House

About Blog House

I set this place up as a refuge for blogspotters, back in the days when blogspot was just a tad flaky, and hosting was a good deal more expensive. Since then, blogspot has become a fairly decent place to put your blog (if you don’t mind that “next blog” link on the top that could lead people to who-knows-what). And hosting has become enough cheaper that a mere hosting reseller like me can’t compete. So, I am no longer taking hosting clients.

I will still provide some services I’ve provided before, but I’m mostly intending to turn this site into more of a ‘how to’ site about blogging. Not so much how to write, but some of the little things that newbies don’t know when they decide to start a blog.

Things like, “FTP? What is FTP?” or “What do they mean you have to change permissions on the directory?” — little things like that. The basic stuff. The things all the old-timers on the internet (like me) think that everyone knows. I will be asking others for advice on what to talk about, since I knew how to use FTP (and telnet, not to mention gopher and archie and veronica) before the Mosaic browser came out (just google it). Yeah, I’m an old-timer. So what? I still remember being a newbie, and I remember how confusing it all was. That’s what counts.

I’m going to be putting up some very basic tutorials, recommendations for useful sites and programs and yes — the economy being what it is — some of those will be affilate links but not all of them. I refuse to recommend something just because it has an affiliate program, and I equally refuse to not recommend something because it doesn’t.

I’ll also be posting things about internet safety, spam, scams and other things of that nature. I’ve always hated spammers, and my present job involves email newsletters. Because of the Can Spam act, legitimate newsletters MUST come from a working email address. We have responses from all our clients’ sending addresses forwarded to us, as well as them (so we can check for ‘unscubscribe me’ responses from people who couldn’t find the very obvious unsubscribe button). Ever gotten 30,000 spam emails in a week? I have. I despise spammers, and most of them are scammers as well. (The rest are just fools.)

Saturday, November 15th, 2008, by Kathy and is filed under "General, Navel Gazing, Scams, Spams ". You can leave a response here, or send a Trackback from your own site.